In my home village we have a much safer and much better version of it:
You can accelerate yourself by just pulling at the plate in the middle, meaning that everyone can have fun and you can probably get much higher speeds.
Meh, the constant threat of being thrown violently out into oblivion was most of the fun!
Back in my day, we walked for miles uphill in the snow to school, we rode the unprotected meatspin, broke all of our bones, and then we walked for miles uphill back home. Kids these days are so spoiled and pampered!!!
„Safer“ until you get flung against the metal bar before flying off. Because to get it up to speed you have to stand up.
Exactly you can use the railing to hang on the outside. Greater speed and much more fun.
My grade school playground equipment was made of old tires, chains, and wooden posts. Injuries abounded, and not one of our 1980s parents gave a shit.
But the ones that survived were warriors all. We’ve seen the enemy, and it goes round and round and round and round.
The game was, you’d put one kid in the middle and then everybody else would do their level best to spin the damn thing so fast it would either drill into the Earth’s mantle or take off like a helicopter.
I don’t remember ever being thrown off of one of these. But I always see memes like this.
Part of the fun is hanging off the side of it to increase the G forces.
This was the best one.
Broken bones was just an indication that you gotta get good.
My kindergarten had a much cruder and unsafe version of this. My system has a scar on her forehead from the time fell off of it and an open ended pipe in the structure hit her. We went absolutely wild spinning that thing.
I hope your system is doing butter thesis dames.
Poetry.
I lost a tooth to one of these things.
To be fair, a bunch of teenagers were also involved, making it spin at about mach 87 before it smashed into my mouth.
Have you seen the videos using motorbike wheels to spin these things up?
Whistlindiesel on YouTube put a jet engine on one
sadly modern adults are concerned about “safety” and “injuries”
Idk theres a car dealership that has a 2 level version of this. The middle part is raised and spins with the base. Its not as wide as the old ones, but it seems just as dangerous.
Then theres the single person versions that works off of like angled centrifugal force? Idk. It spins and spins just from body weight. They can start it on their own, but I’ve had random kids ask me to help them stop, cause they couldn’t do it themselves. I see variations of these in most newer playgrounds. Some have you sitting, some standing. Many parents still dont give a shit.
My old school “upgraded” it when we left… by asphalting around it.
My school had one on dirt. The panels were wood and had a hole in it. Finally, one day, we were playing and a kid’s foot went down there and got fucked up. He was like a rockstar coming into school next day with stitches and crutches.
If you had to work around the hateful little shits all day you’d be trying to look for low key ways to maim them too.
If you truly hate kids, this is what you have to do. Introduce dangers with plausible deniability.
How was I supposed to know the kids would use it to turn each other into meat crayons?
Knees are overrated.
Uncle Dave out there spinning the yeet machine up to 11.
We used to walk up hill both ways in the snow to the hospital
A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, and things slowly returned to normal, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.
Jesus Christ
These were so much fun as a kid and pretty good as a drunk adult too
